Ethics

Required Texts: How Are We To Live?, Singer (HWL) Living High and Letting Die, Unger (LHLD) You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn (YCBN), 5 Days That Shook the World Cockburn et al. (5DTS)

*Date*	*Text Assignment*	*Web Readings/Activities*	*Homework*
Week 1 Jan. 14-18	Preface 1. The Ultimate Choice HWL	Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism	Volunteer Opportunities at First Look Public Service Extra Credit
Week 2 Jan. 23-25	2. 'What's in it for me?' HWL Kant	Kant's Groundwork Use the browser's Search function to find the word 'imperative'. Back up to the top of that paragraph and read from there.	The Unbearable Whiteness of Being * Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free program found here.
Week 3 Jan. 28-Feb 1	3. Using up the world 4. How we came to be living this way HWL Mill	Mill's Utilitarianism; A secondary source is here.	Is Smith Misquoted? * Smith/Rousseau Quotes *
Week 4 Feb. 4-8	5. Is selfishness in our genes? HWL		Paper 1 Assignment
Week 5 Feb. 11-15	6. How the Japapnese live HWL Aristotle	Aristotle's Nicomacean Ethics	Paper 1 due Friday
Week 6 Feb. 18-22	7. Tit for Tat 8. Living ethically HWL	The Prisoners' Dilemma Game
Week 7 Feb. 25-Mar. 1	9. The nature of ethics 10. Living to some purpose 11. The good life HWL
Week 8 Mar. 4-8	1. Illusions of Innocence 2. Living High and Letting Die LHLD	UNICEF US Committee for UNICEF OXFAM OXFAM America
Week 9 Mar. 11-15	3. Living High, Stealing and Letting Die LHLD	Food First The Hunger Site Free Donation.com	Midterm on Wednesday
Week 10 Mar. 18-22	4. Between Some Rocks and Some Hard Places LHLD
Week 11 Mar. 25-29	Spring Break
Week 12 Apr. 1-5	6. Living High and Letting Die Reconsidered LHLD YCBN
Week 13 Apr. 8-12	YCBN
Week 14 Apr. 15-19	YCBN, 5DTS		Paper 2 due Friday
Week 15 Apr. 22-26	5DTS
Week 16 Apr. 29-May 3	5DTS		Final Make-ups on Wednesday
Week 17 May 6-10	Finals